Despite Trump endorsement, Dr Oz faces a Republican pile-on in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Republicans badly need to hold the Senate seat that GOP incumbent Pat Toomey is vacating at the end of the year. If they manage that, they can win the Senate majority by flipping just one seat. Last night, the candidates in Pennsylvania convened for a debate and immediately turned their attention to one among their number: Dr Mehmet Oz.

Earlier this month, Donald Trump endorsed the former television host. But that endorsement did little to quiet Republican criticisms that Oz is not sufficiently supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda.

Dave McCormick, the former hedge fund executive and Dr Oz’s strongest competitor, attacked him for changing his positions on everything from abortion to fracking (saying the physician and television host supported a ban on it, a no-no in fracking-heavy Pennsylvania) He also seemed to hit the television host for his selling of bogus treatments while on television, saying: “The reason Mehmet keeps talking about President Trump’s endorsement is because he can’t run on his own positions and his own record. The problem, doctor, is there’s no miracle cure for flip-flopping, and Pennsylvanians are seeing right through your phoniness.”